More quotes by John Green, Looking for Alaska

"People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to."
"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."
"It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles "Pudge"
"She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom."
"We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken."